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• He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Running, Brooks

  William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.227

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• When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Gait, Strain

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.171

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• The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

  William Wordsworth

  Intellectual, Way, Intellect

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 3, l. 700

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• Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Home, Lakes

  1803 'Yarrow Unvisited', stanzas 6-7 (published 1807).

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• Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

  William Wordsworth

  Profound, Secret, Cups

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.345

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• The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Eye, Men

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.389

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• Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Hope, Men, Suffering

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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• His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

  William Wordsworth

  Light, Inward, Path

  'Character of the Happy Warrior' (1807)

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• The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

  William Wordsworth

  Sick, Lovers, Fit

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.147, Humanities-Ebooks

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• We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

  William Wordsworth

  Youth, Madness, Poet

  "Resolution and Independence" l. 43 (1807)

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• Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

  William Wordsworth

  Ocean, Sea, Land

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.121

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• Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Mountain, Green

  1798 'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye', l.102-6.

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• I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Nature, Rivers

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.76

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• The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Fall, Voice

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth:: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author. With Additional Poems, a New Preface, and a Supplementary Essay. In Two Volumes”, p.32

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• If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.402, Wordsworth Editions

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• Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Two, Voice

  'Two Voices are there' (1807)

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• The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

  William Wordsworth

  Lonely, Sleep, Sky

  'Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle' (1807)

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• The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

  William Wordsworth

  Years, Victory, Age

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.404, Wordsworth Editions

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• Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

  William Wordsworth

  Hands, Silent, Hours

  'The River Duddon' (1820) st. 34 'After-Thought'

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• With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art worthy, Thou unassuming commonplace Of Nature, with that homely face, And yet with something of a grace Which love makes for thee!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Art, Grace

  1802 'To the Daisy', stanza 1 (published 1807).

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• Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

  William Wordsworth

  Poetry, Enough

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• my brain
  Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
  Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
  There hung a darkness, call it solitude
  Or blank desertion.

  William Wordsworth

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Darkness

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.638, Wordsworth Editions

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• When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
  The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
  I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

  William Wordsworth

  Country, Fear, Men

  William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.255

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• We murder to dissect.

  William Wordsworth

  Discovery, Murder

  "The Tables Turned" l. 28 (1798)

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• A lawyer art thou? Draw not nigh! Go, carry to some fitter place The keenness of that practised eye, The hardness of that sallow face.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Eye, Faces

  William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.329

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